awtrobot

I have a program whose only purpose is to drive a java.awt.Robot in an infinite loop until an exit condition is met. The robot performs a number of actions in quick succession, which require a standard UI delay between them. For this, I use java.awt.Robot.setAutoDelay(int ms) , which appears to be designed for precisely this purpose. At other times, however, I need to insert arbitrarily long delays for operations to complete. I appear to have a choice between using java.awt.Robot.delay(int ms) or java.lang.Thread.sleep(long ms) , and am curious what the differences between them are, and which

I am taking screenshots of the screen using robot and then searching for smaller images within those screenshots. This works on Windows but not OS X because of gamma correction. The best solution I can come up with is to simply match similar colours instead of exact color matches. My fear is that matching similar colours will mean going beyond getRGB therefore will slow down my program (because it's taking multiple screenshots and comparing them to a smaller image to search for a match very quickly). My question is, lets say I had BufferedImage Screenshot and BufferedImage smallImage, how

I'm using java.awt.Robot for integration tests of my Swing application, but I'm having trouble running my actions in the correct order. How can I tell the thread that calls robot.mousePressed(...) to block until Swing is finished dispatching that event? Apparently, robot.setAutoWaitForIdle(true) does no good. Here's my demo. I expect the "robot finished!" message to always come after "Action finished blocking.", but instead it often happens too soon instead. import java.awt.AWTException; import java.awt.GraphicsConfiguration; import java.awt.GraphicsDevice; import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment;

I'm working on a custom remote desktop in Java using java.awt.Robot on Windows 7. It all works apart from running a Command Prompt as an administrator. The UAC dialog appears, however button clicks are not accepted on the Yes button using mousePress() / mouseRelease() , neither are key presses with keyPress() / keyRelease() . The application is launched via a launch4j launcher in launcher rather than wrap mode. Things I've done so far Disabled secure desktop for UAC. This allowed the screen grabber part of the application to at least 'see' the prompt Changed group policy to disable

I'm trying to simulate a keystroke with the code below. When I open notepad it works fine but when I open the game in which I want to use it, it doesn't do anything. So keystrokes don’t seem to work. I tried to simulate mouse movement and clicks, those action do work. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I found this question, How can I use java.awt.Robot inside games? but I can't add a comment or anything. package MyProject; import java.awt.AWTException; import java.awt.Robot; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; public class KeyStroke { public static void main(String[] args) throws

The Java Robot class allows one to move the mouse as if the actual physical mouse was moved. However, how does one move the mouse from Point1 to Point2 in a humane (and thus not instant) manner? Aka, how does one set the speed of movement? If no such speed is possible with the Robot class, thus if the mouse can only be moved instantenously, what kind of "algorithm" should be used to mimic a human's mouse movement? Should it move the mouse pixel by pixel with a certain incrementing speed? The Robot class has a delay(...) method that you can use to control movement from point to point. Try a few